Ren: Sick Boi

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Hip hop is evolving on a regular basis and Ren has  in all probability produced essentially the most formidable album we’ve heard for years. The phrase genius involves thoughts. Wayne AF Carey evaluations.

Fuckin ‘ell! While you’re slapped by an album like this you realize it. How many individuals are you aware who has over one million followers on YouTube and a music with 8 million hits on Spotify? Ren has completed all this on his personal and self produced it and he’s solely on album quantity two. Jesus. Final time I reviewed a hip hop album it was Slowthai which was extremely revered as a debut however that is one thing else. Ren covers the entire spectrum of hip hop after which some. Not unhealthy for a younger lad from Anglesey with excessive ambitions and main well being points. What impresses most is he’s producing himself and releasing movies with the standard of Infantile Gambino with a funds of fuck all.

This can be a mammoth album of the perfect futuristic hip hop you’ve ever heard, knocking everybody else out of the park. Opening monitor Seven Sins screams his Welsh roots and offers you an perception to his well being points. Sick Boi is a harsh story of his well being and is offended as fuck with the funkiest hip hop beat going. Animal Circulate is a growling quantity that bounces together with it’s George Orwell impressed theme and a few intricate lyrics which have Eminem stylings that rage in magnificence. He’s intelligent.

Cash Recreation Half 3 is simply traditional. Earlier than you hearken to this have a hearken to Plan B and watch the video for This Is America by Infantile Gambino and also you’ll get my drift. Greatest tune and story I’ve heard in years. Fucking good. Misplaced All Religion is the hip hop singing tune that bends all genres with the ability of a younger grasp. “Halitosis with psychosis”? Quick as fuck rapping and a top quality refrain. Genesis kicks in with a beautiful guitar lick then lifts with a top quality hip hop beat laced with a few of the greatest rapping you’ll hear today. He makes Kendrick Lamar sound like an beginner. Assassin is hip hop at it’s greatest. This man clearly is aware of what he’s doing. Barrington Levy’s Homicide was an affect as you may hear all through with the reggae vibes. Additionally a nod to Eminem once more. Who the fuck has completed one thing like Eminem for years? Ren has.

Suicide is darkish as fuck. Dropping a buddy should be onerous and he lays all of it out on this monitor. A low bass line and a few nice sound happening. The mellowist monitor on right here and unhappy as fuck. Illest Of Our Time goes all acid home journey hop and could possibly be a tackle In poor health, or In poor health as being sick. The rapping on that is intense and gripping in equal measures displaying his expertise as a contender for the quick as fuck rapping of Busta Rhymes. Love Music Pt.4 goes all old fashioned with some traditional samples and nice lyrics that I’ve not heard for some time which is an eye fixed opener. “I’m a reprobate, I’m in a public park whereas I masturbate” Glorious line that Eminem would twat him for! Uninvited is THE pop music on the album with risque lyrics about shagging with out a relationship. It’s received all of the hallmarks of a soul model of The Mondays Unfastened Match. Stuffed with innuendos and a proper snort!

What You Need is a lyrical little bit of genius backed by Beastie Boys / Home Of Ache perspective laced with a little bit of Cypress Hill and a few nice scratching to make it sound prime as fuck. The Starvation is a correct offended bastard with hundred mile an hour lyrics that stun me each time I hear it. This man makes Bob Vylan sound like Vanilla Ice. Correct bang on stuff! Down On The Beat is an enormous banger which exhibits how proficient this man is. He dabbles with techno to nice impact and will in all probability fill a dancefloor with this funky bastard! It’s fucking large and takes me again to the late eighties home / techno scene.

Masochist might be the one tune on this that begins with the ‘motherfuckers. “Don’t journey, I’m a motherfuckin’ masochist” A darkish as fuck monitor that simply sounds psychological and talks about destroying stuff. His rapping is immense and flows like an overflowing waterfall. Loco is simply intelligent as fuck with the Lord Of The Rings references and contours like “I watch an excessive amount of Scarface I feel I’m Hispanic” It’s stunning offended rap with a contact of reggae thrown in. Depraved Methods is fucking good. 100 mile an hour rap supply spitting intelligent lyrics but once more with venom. Closing monitor Sick Boi Pt 2 is one other darkish quantity which fits all grime in a KRS A technique and shits throughout a few of these crews that declare to be from the unhealthy streets. Basic.

What I like about Ren is he’s not making an attempt to be a part of a wannabe onerous grime gang of “i’m onerous as fuck’ rappers. He’s the actual deal. Dealing with a crippling array of well being points, residing in Brighton by way of his residence of Anglesey he’s prime as fuck. An astonishing artist who’s up there with greatest hip hop acts of our instances. A contender for Album Of The Yr.

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Phrases by Wayne Carey, Opinions Editor for Louder Than Struggle. His writer profile is right here